Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：健康青少年发展预防研究中心（UMN PRC）的使命是与卫生部门、相关机构和社区伙伴合作，发展和传播可操作的知识和实践，促进所有年轻人的健康发展和健康公平。我们的具体目标反映在我们的单位具体工作计划中，包括利用跨学科研究、培训、社区教育、技术援助、能力建设、战略沟通和评价，在整个生命的第二个十年及以后建立健康、能力和能力，并在与年轻人一起工作和代表年轻人工作的伙伴中建立能力。我们的长期目标侧重于扩大科学知识和增加基于证据的公共卫生项目的使用，这些项目可以推进国家卫生议程，正如健康人2020年以青少年为重点的目标（7个优先领域中的5个）所反映的那样，促进国家预防战略中阐明的卫生公平，并解决疾病预防控制中心与青少年相关的可打赢的战斗（即生殖健康）。UMN中华人民共和国核心项目“健康学生成果伙伴关系”（PHSO）是一项基于学校的社会情绪学习（SEL）预防计划的相对有效性的比较研究，该计划针对明尼阿波利斯-圣路易斯市不同文化背景、经济条件较差的中学的学生。保罗，明尼苏达州都会区。我们的主要研究问题是：一个以学校为基础的多年预防项目，注入专业发展（PD），旨在提高中学教师团队参与学生学习的能力，是否会产生中学生健康风险行为和学业成绩的变化，而不仅仅是以学校为基础的以学生为中心的预防项目的结果？该研究有两个主要目标：主要目标1：开展一项试点研究，以确定以学校为基础的SEL+PD计划（积极行动加上教师团队的专业发展和支持）的可行性和可接受性，旨在减少中学生的健康风险行为（暴力、欺凌、物质使用、性风险行为）并提高学业成绩；主要目标2：实施SEL +教师团队专业发展计划，并与单独的SEL计划相比，评估其对学生成绩的有效性。我们将在一项配对的随机试验中评估这两种情况，该试验涉及4所城市中学的大约840名学生，时间跨度为3个学年。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center (UMN PRC) is to collaborate with health departments, related agencies and community partners to develop and disseminate actionable knowledge and practices that promote healthy development and health equity among all young people. Our specific aims, reflected in our unit-specific work plans, include the use of interdisciplinary research, training, community education, TA, capacity-building, strategic communications, and evaluations to build health, competence, and capacity throughout the second decade of life and beyond, and to build capacity in partners working with and on behalf of young people. Our long-term objectives focus on expansion of scientific knowledge and increased use of evidence-based public health programs that advances the national health agenda as reflected in Healthy People 2020's adolescent-focused goals (5 of 7 priority areas), promotes health equity as articulated in the National Prevention Strategy, and addresses CDC adolescent-related Winnable Battles (i.e., reproductive health). The UMN PRC core project, Partnering for Healthy Student Outcomes (PHSO) is a comparative study of the relative effectiveness of a school-based, social-emotional learning (SEL) prevention program for students attending culturally diverse, economically disadvantaged middle schools in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN metro area. Our primary research question is: Will a multi-year, school-based prevention program, infused with professional development (PD) aimed at increasing the capacity of middle school teacher teams to engage their students in learning, yield changes in middle school students' health risk behaviors and academic outcomes that exceed outcomes from a school-based student-focused prevention program alone? The research has two primary aims: Primary Aim 1: Conduct a pilot study to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a school-based, SEL+PD program (Positive Action plus teacher-team professional development and support) designed to reduce health risk behaviors (violence, bullying, substance use, sexual risk behaviors) and increase academic achievement among middle school students; and Primary Aim 2: Implement a SEL plus teacher-team professional development program and evaluate its effectiveness on student outcomes compared to a SEL program alone. We will evaluate the two conditions in a matched pairs, randomized trial involving approximately 840 students in 4 urban middle level schools across 3 school years.